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Salmon Portland Chase

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Salmon Portland Chase 1808-73, American public official and jurist, 6th Chief Justice of the United States (1864-73), b. Cornish, N.H. Admitted to the bar in 1829, he defended runaway blacks so often that he became known as "attorney general for fugitive slaves." Chase became prominent in the Liberty party and later in the Free-Soil party and was elected by a coalition of Free-Soilers and antislavery Democrats to the U.S. Senate, where (1849-55) he eloquently opposed such proslavery measures as the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Chase was elected governor of Ohio in... Read more
Salmon Portland Chase
Encyclopedia of World Biography ...The American statesman Salmon Portland Chase (1808-1873) was an ardent...of the Supreme Court. Salmon P. Chase was born at Cornish...Philander, now Bishop Chase, became president of Cincinnati College, Salmon was his student. In... Read more
Chase, Salmon Portland
The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States Chase, Salmon Portland (b. Cornish, N.H., 13 January...being raised an orphan, Salmon P. Chase graduated from Dartmouth...Moving to Cincinnati, Chase was thrice married (1834...x201D; constitutionalism, Chase emerged as a would‐... Read more

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